Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left of poor Fitzgerald is the presence of money, nay, more a proclamation than a presence. The movie, finally, is not unlike an early Newport mansion for a new-monied man. It plasters gold on its surface in true gargoyle style; the pictures too perfectly partake of the New Port pretensions they are supposed to reveal. The movie stands as a tabloid monument to social climbing America--too much of it too new, too raw-nozed, its jaw somehow too square and too set. So completely lacking is it in the distinctions of taste and tradition, so uneducated...
Rhodesia's interests are even more vital. Rhodesia is entirely landlocked--and virtually all of its exports and imports go through the Mozambican port of Beira. With Mozambique in black hands, and more than likely to exclude white-supremacist governments from the use of its resources, Rhodesia would have to ship all of its exports and imports overland through South Africa before getting to a port--the trip would be five times as long...
South Africa would be faced with a similar situation in regard to the Mozambican port of Lourenco Marques, which now carries much of the traffic to and from Johannesburg, South Africa's industrial capital. All of this cargo would now have to be routed through one of South Africa's own four ports...
...Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home-port a Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier in Greece. The Navy had already shifted other ships there, but the Greeks protested further moves. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in a masterpiece of bureaucratese, recently said that home-port negotiations would resume when there was "greater harmony in our mutual perceptions...
Maguire is the consulting firm which supported the Inner Belt, a proposed traffic artery (later scrapped) hated by Cambridge residents, and the firm which allegedly bowed to political pressure in altering its findings about a new container port in Boston Harbor. Anti-library forces have objected so strenuously to the library and to Maguire that the firm's decision will be doubted no matter what the outcome...